Social Work / Family Therapy / Human Services

This revised edition of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing and development fully examines the broad and changing political and social settings that influence actions; while portraying the infra-structure of social change -- the knowledge, personnel, and organizations -- that enable such work to be successfully accomplished.  

The text brings together the practicalities of  organizing and development -- fund raising, working out news releases, running an organization, orchestrating political actions, academic knowledge -- and explains why various approaches work; as well as the values and ideologies that guide what is to be done.  It provides the foundations of organizing and development work and then describes how activists -- through following either a social confrontation model or an economic and social production approach -- can respond to economic and social problems. 

• Presents a comprehensive, holistic introduction to the array of approaches that guide social change, social activism, and economic and community development work.  
• The various models of change are illustrated through dozens of real-life contemporary illustrations. 
• While the text clearly distinguishes between different theories and models of organizing and development, it also emphasizes that the approaches complement one another in a shared effort to bring about improvement.  The text then builds upon these theories to illustrate practical techniques of social mobilization, organization building, learning about social problems, and then the nitty gritty details of how problems are solved either through confrontional actions or by through economic and social development projects. 

New to this edition:

• Chapters have been fully updated and grouped into effective teaching units.
• A more fully developed progressive organizing model is added that explicitly links values to social actions to provide an integrative theme for the text.
• More  discussion of the importance of the Web–as an aid for organizing political and confrontational actions, as well guidance in economic and social development projects.
• Increased coverage of the practical details of organizing and development -- fund raising, publicity, running an organization, and orchestrating political actions.  

• Two new overview chapters, with Chapter 2 presenting descriptive narratives of successful organizing and development work and Chapter 3 examining contrasting models of organizing. 
• Expanded coverage of the importance of values and ideology, both for motivating organizing work as well as for understanding the actions of the opposition.
• Numerous examples that show students a wide range of possible careers in social change work.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Part  One:  Progressive Organizing  

Chapter 1:  Organizing and Development for Progressive Social Change  

Chapter 2:  A World of Action: A World of Hope  

Chapter 3:  Models for Implementing Progressive Social Change: Commonalities, Differences and Reconciliations 

Part Two:  The Three Pillars of Progressive Organizing  

Chapter 4:  Empowering Individuals  

Chapter 5:  Building Community to Create Capacity for Change  

Chapter 6:  Empowering Through Building Progressive Organizations  

Part Three:  Problems, Programs and Precedents  

Chapter 7:  Social Problems and Public Policy  

Chapter 8:  Intersecting Histories: Community Organizing,  Issue Mobilization, and Social Movements

Chapter 9:  Learning About Personal, Community, and Social Needs Through Action Research  

Part Four:  Building Capacity to Initiate Collective Action  

Chapter 10:  Activists, Organizers, and Social Change Professionals  

Chapter 11:  Creating Capacity Through Effective Organizational Administration  

Chapter 12:  Expanding Capacity Through Empowering, Participatory Meetings  

Chapter 13:  Building Capacity By Working with the Support Sector  

Part Five:  Compelling Change Through Social Mobilization  

Chapter 14:  An Overview to Social Mobilization Campaigns  

Chapter 15:  Mobilizing Individuals and Groups  

Chapter 16:  Influencing the Public Sector:Civic and Administrative Engagement  

Chapter 17:  Compelling Change Through Power Tactics  

Chapter 18:  Tools for Strengthening Social Mobilization Campaigns: Lawyers and Litigation Publicity and the Mass Media; Negotiations

Chapter 19:  Social Action: Magnifying Power Through Coalitions.  

Part Six:  Implementing Change Through the Community Economic Development and Social Production Approach 

Chapter 20:  An  Introduction to the Community Economic Development and Social Production Model 

Chapter 21:  Skills for Accomplishing Economic and Social Production Work  

Part  Seven:  Epilogue: Working Toward a Progressive Society  

Chapter 22:  Epilogue: Working Toward a Progressive Society  

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Community Organization  (Social Work / Family Therapy / Human Services)
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